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Ohmigod. That's utter pornography, there.

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It's basically my house, with higher ceilings, renovated, not across the street from a park but also not next door to a frat house (where, in classic last-day-of-classes fashio, drinking songs are being sung. Loudly).

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Yeah, I thought it looked a lot like yours. And no fratboys is always a plus.

(Now, if I know me, I'm going to run off to find a payment calculator that will tell me how much I'd be paying every month for that baby. And then I'll probably have to cry. Or scheme up some way to double my income by the open house.)

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I've already emailed my mother asking her if she wants to buy me a house.

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orthoepy.livejournal.com

gorgeous!

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Well, I can just see that this is going to get into a nasty bidding war. My opening offer is THIRTY-EIGHT DOLLARS!

So there. That should learn ya.

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That's a $750,000 house in Berkeley.

I can't believe how cheap it is.

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It's pretty expensive, for here. I think they must have bought it for at least 100K less, 3 years ago. They've done a lot of work on it, but our neighborhood has had a big price jump recently.

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I'd kill, practically, to have an arts and crafts house like that. Also, my mortgage is 2/3 that, on my secty's salary - you're double income, right? Is it only out here that the entire real estate and business world will move heaven and earth to get people into buying a house? You can get no-down or 5% down loans out here. A good realtor ought to be able to do the same thing for you there. I hope you get it.

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You know, right, that the looniversity credit union has a zero-down program? I mean, this house is kind of at the high end for around here, and M is in school and all that, so I know money can't be too plentiful, but if/when you're looking to buy, yadda yadda.

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There's never a good time to buy a house, I swear, but when you do it, you see that the whole system is set up to support the home buyer. I re-read the thing; the work was done by an architect/owner? Dude. That means the work was probably done right. I swear I'll shut and go away now! Just, wahh! it's really hard to find houses like that for sale out here, even at $750,000-$1,000,000.

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Damn, that's nice. I want it.

Here, you can't even get a freakin' one bedroom apartment for that. At least, not where you won't get killed.

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Unfortunately, when we looked at buying right before I found out I was pregnant, the (well-recommended) mortgage people we talked to were not interested in giving us anywhere near what the monthly payment on that house would be. It's not the down payment that's the big hurdle for us - mr. flea used to have a well-paying job, and we'd been saving with a house in mind - it's the monthly. Even dual income, last year we earned little enough to qualify for the Looniversity's low income buy-a-house support for a single person. So, if we wanted to buy a not dissimilar house - though renovated on the cheap, corporately, in a much less fancy neighborhood (only 6 blocks away), we could do so for like $109K. (That last is just to shock MakaiDiver!)

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